BOOKS

cloudfang : : cakedirt

Daniela Olszewska

Earlier versions of poems from this manuscript have appeared in the following journals/anthologies: Alice Blue, Barn Owl Review, Barrelhouse, Bone Bouquet, Concert at Chopin’s Opera House II, Drupe Fruits, Everyday Genius, Featherproof Books’ Storigami Project,GlitterPony, Humble Humdrum Cotton Frock, jubilat, Night Train, PANK Magazine, PANK Magazine’s 2011 Queer Issue, Sixth Finch, Small Fire Press’s Matchbook Vol. 3, We Are So Happy to Know Something, and Zero Ducats.

Daniela Olszewska is the author of three collections of poetry: cloudfang : : cakedirt (horse less press, 2012), Citizen J (Artifice Books, forthcoming), and How to Feel Confident with Your Special Talents (co-written with Carol Guess) (Black Lawrence Press, forthcoming). She sits on Switchback Books’ Board of Directors and serves as Associate Poetry Editor of H_NGM_N. Daniela teaches creative writing in conjunction with The Alabama Prison Arts & Education Project.

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The Soft Place

Kate Schapira

“In my mind, The Soft Place makes traces around what works to keep us together or keep us going: kindness, stitches (‘this inner thing is mine’), seeds, family lines, and the symmetries and asymptotes therein. With intimacy and intelligence, Schapira reminds us of those mirrors (between us and us, us and others or lovers, us and the wound or the world) that sometimes hold together, sometimes shatter: ‘Nature doesn’t mirror us, but it senses us.’ She holds the shards between pictures up to each other in reciprocity, responsiveness; that is to say, she holds it together.”—Eleni Sikelianos

Kate Schapira is the author of The Soft Place (horse less press, 2012), How We Saved the City (Stockport Flats, 2012), The Bounty: Four Addresses (Noemi Press, 2011), TOWN (Factory School, 2010) and several chapbooks from Flying Guillotine Press, Portable Press at Yo-Yo Labs, Cy Gist Press, Rope- A-Dope Press and horse less press. She lives in Providence, Rhode Island, where she co- curates the Publicly Complex Reading Series and writes, teaches, and works as a Writer in the Schools.

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It Might Turn Out We Are Real

Susan Scarlata

“Susan Scarlata is on message, and she is not letting go. She is trying to tell us “no other planet meets our needs.” She turns her screen to let us see what she sees. Not, as they say, a pretty sight. She lays it out with great precision in her beautiful vitrine of words. It Might Turn Out We Are Real is a complete set of 21ST century eclogues delivered to your door with brainy clarity, with vinegary humor, with ergonomic economy and red-behind-the-ribs feeling. A positively extraordinary collection.”
—C.D. Wright

Susan Scarlata’s essays, poetry and reviews have appeared in Conduit, The Denver Quarterly, Fence, The Horse Less Review, Typo and are forthcoming in 1913. Scarlata is the author of the chapbook, Lit Instant published by Parcel Press. She has designed and taught courses at Universities, held residencies, and led writing workshops for students of all ages as well as teachers. Scarlata received her PhD from The University of Denver where she also taught and developed writing courses that integrated service into the writing curriculum.

Susan taught at and holds an MFA from Brown University. She is the Executive Editor of Lost Roads Publishers, an independent literary press, and is currently an Associate Professor of English at the Savannah College of Art and Design’s newest campus in Hong Kong.

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FABRIC: Preludes to the Last American Book
Richard Froude

“I love Richard Froude’s declarative, incandescently plain sentences, which at first seem like high-stakes non-sequiturs, then a study in perfect, surprising aphorism, then a deftly woven web of profundity. The formal distillation and intellectual range of this book are impressive enough; even more so is Froude’s gentle but insistent touching on questions of God, mortality, war, memory, family, intimacy, and history. Froude sets up poetic shop in the fraught space between ‘terror and fertility,’ and wrests from it this exceptionally beautiful, intelligent book.”
-Maggie Nelson

Richard Froude was born in London in 1979, grew up in Bristol and came to the US in 2002. New writing can be found in Witness, Birkensnake, and Slacklust. With Anne Waldman and Erik Anderson, he compiles and edits the mail-art journal Thuggery & Grace. An associate of the Arts & Humanities in Healthcare Program at the University of Colorado School of Medicine, he works with palliative care patients at UC hospital. He lives in Denver with his wife, Rohini.

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New Pony: A Horse Less Anthology                                                                 

edited by Erika Howsare & Jen Tynes

including work by Erik Anderson, Cynthia Arrieu-King & Kristi Maxwell, Sarah Bartlett & Emily Kendal Frey, Eric Baus & Seth Perlow, Sommer Browning & Brandon Shimoda, Adam Clay, Gary L. McDowell, and Brandon Shimoda, Julia Cohen & Mathias Svalina, Thomas Cook & Nate Slawson, Bruce Covey & Terita Heath-Wlaz, MTC Cronin & Peter Boyle, Mark DeCarteret, DZ Delgado & Sandy Florian, Jennifer K. Dick, Camille Dungy & Ravi Shankar, Annie Finch & Erika Howsare, Shawn Huelle & Jess Wigent, Kirk Keen, The Pines, Seth Perlow & Catherine Theis, Dani Rado, Andrea Rexilius & Susan Scarlata, Kate Schapira, Paul Siegell, Justin Taylor & Bill Hayward, and William Walsh.

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CHAPBOOKS

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Mini-Chapbook Bundle #1: HEARTPOEMS by Jess Rowan, from THE BLANK CAUGHT FIRE by Erin McNellis, and AN ATOMIC FACT by Maurice Burford.

Jess Rowan’s heart is the shape of the west coast & the east coast dancing in a blender. She currently lives & writes in the frost heaves of Maine.

Erin McNellis is the author of Impossible Loves, a book of essays published by Rock Paper Tiger Press in 2011. Poems and prose have appeared in Imaginary Syllabi (ed. Jane Sprague, Palm Press, 2011), Horse Less Review, Noö Journal, The Journal for Cultural and Religious Theory, and Hysteria (ed. Jennifer Savran, Luna Sea Press, 2003). She lives in Long Beach, CA and blogs intermittently about literature and pop culture at http://uncomplicatedly.wordpress.com.

Maurice Burford lives & writes in Bangor, Maine and is the poetry editor for HOUSEFIRE Publishing. His work has recently appeared in Horseless Review, Shampoo, & Juked. He is also the the author of the chapbooks Rimbaud’s / Poems (Grey Book Press, 2012) and w/ Jess Rowan Prithee (Abraham Lincoln Press, 2010).

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phylum

Laura Goldstein

Laura Goldstein’s poetry and essays have appeared or are forthcoming from the Denver Quarterly, American Letters and Commentary, Jacket2, How2, and other fine publications. She is the author of six chapbooks, and her first full-length collection of poetry, loaded arc, will be released by Trembling Pillow Press in Summer 2013. Performances of her work have been documented in the Emergency Index by Ugly Duckling Presse. She currently teaches at Loyola University and co-curates the Red Rover Series with Jennifer Karmin in Chicago.

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Diplomancy

Tony Mancus

Tony Mancus is the author of two other chapbooks: Bye Land (Greying Ghost Press) and Bye Sea (Tree Light Books). In 2008, he and Sommer Browning co-founded Flying Guillotine Press. Some of his poems and reviews have appeared in Verse, Phantom Limb, Sink Review, Salt Hill, The Fiddleback, H_ngm_n, Diagram, PANK, and elsewhere. He works as a quality assurance specialist and a writing instructor just outside Washington D.C.

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Harpsichord Hills

Merrill Gilfillan

Merrill Gilfillan’s first books of poems –in fact, chapbooks– appeared in 1970. Maybe another dozen or so since, as well as two short story collections and several books of essays engaging various American landscapes and spoor. A native of Ohio, he has lived in the West for thirty-some years.

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Oak Knock

Erika Howsare

Erika Howsare lives in Virginia, where she wears hats including mother, journalist, and birth doula. Her full-length manuscript, How Is Travel a Folded Form?, was a finalist for the Besmilr Brigham Women Writers Award in 2012.

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Essay on Parts of Day

Molly Brodak

Molly Brodak is the author of A Little Middle of the Night (University of Iowa Press, 2010) and the chapbook The Flood (Coconut Books, 2012). She lives in Atlanta.

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Honeybabe, Don’t Leave Me Now

Nathan Hauke

Nathan Hauke was born and raised in rural Michigan. His first book, In the Marble of Your Animal Eyes, is forthcoming from Publication Studio. He is also the author of chapbooks S E W N (Horse Less Press 2011) and In the Living Room (Lame House Press 2010). His poetry has most recently been published in Coconut, Dusie, E-Ratio, Momoware, Spork, and TYPO. Two of his poems, “Deerfield (1)” and “A Surface. A Shore of Semi-transparencey of Glass,” were selected to be a part of The Arcadia Project: North American Postmodern Pastoral anthology that GC Waldrep and Joshua Corey edited for Ahsahta Press (2012).

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The Other Hand

C.D. Wright

C.D. Wright was born and raised in the Arizona Ozarks. She is the author of more than a dozen books, most recently, One With Others: a little book of her days which was a finalist for the National Book Award, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award, and the Leonore Marshall Prize. She teaches at Brown University and lives outside of Providence.

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Hunter Monies

Jen Tynes

Jen Tynes lives in Grand Rapids, Michigan and edits Horse Less Press. Recent publications include chapbooks from DoubleCross Press, Projective Industries, and Dancing Girl Press. Hunter Monies was written during her first year in Michigan as part of a personal orientation project that involved a lot of walking in the woods and some sleeping on the dunes.

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Up the Shinbone Superlatives

Emily Carr

Emily is passionate about artist books, Mary Ruefle’s essay “On Fear” at the Poetry Foundation, the rediscovery of Mississippi poet besmilr brigham, the sexual politics of meat, the Tarot, the limits of Achilles’ honesty & the problem of Chaucer’s spring, unposted love letters, cannibal chickens & a ship too late to save the drowning witch. This summer, while Writer-In-Residence at Camac Centre d’Art, Emily composed Straight No Chaser, an artist book that experiments with “the poetry of fear.” Materials include a seafoam green Hermes 3000 typewriter, spray paint, scotch tape, a fold-out Athens city guide, & the insatiable appetite of Frieda, Camac cat. Emily is the author of two books of poetry, directions for flying (Furniture Press 2010) & 13 Ways of Happily: Books 1 & 2 (Parlor Press 2011), four chapbooks, & a Tarot novel.

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Terrible + Powerful + Wondrous

Aubrie Marrin

Aubrie Marrin’s poems have appeared in many publications, including Guernica, Harp & Altar, Sink Review, The Literary Review, Horse Less Review, and Colorado Review. She was also a finalist for the 2012 Cleveland State University Poetry Center First Book Prize. Raised in upstate New York, she currently lives and works in Brooklyn.

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Caught a Bad One

Chad Scheel 

Chad Scheel lives in Scottsbluff, Nebraska with his wife and son. His poems have appeared in elimae, Shampoo, listenlight, Blazevox, 2k, Horse Less Review, and others.

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Hornbook

Jeff Hecker

Jeffrey Hecker was born in 1977 in Norfolk, Virginia. A graduate of Old Dominion University,
he’s the author Rumble Seat, published by San Francisco Bay Press. Recent work has appeared or forthcoming in La Reata Review, Mascara Literary Review, Atticus Review,
La Fovea, The Waterhouse Review, Zocalo Public Square, The Burning Bush 2, & Turtleneck Press. He resides in Olde Towne Portsmouth, Virginia.

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TRISM

Rebecca Loudon

Rebecca Loudon is the author of Radish King and Cadaver Dogs. She lives in Seattle and teaches violin lessons to children.

Composed through the fractures of spirit, body and soul, TRISM enters the realm of “King of the First Brutal Memory” with the confrontation of a child’s death. Loudon presents the reader with a shattered mosaic of human cruelty and coldness where the mother’s milk is poison and the only solace found is in “animal quiet” and “contradiction grace.” Wild as in untamed, wild as in carnal, wild as in frenzied, TRISM responds to childhood trauma and betrayal with a stunning primal benevolence.
–Reb Livingston

Rebecca Loudon’s TRISM is a wicked revelation of secrets and betrayals in a world beyond the
mirror glass. Follow the forgotten Alices and abandoned Jacks of fairy tale lore as they negotiate the strangeness and terror of love, memory and sexuality, watched over by the enigmatic Trism Bear, on their journey to transformation. Rebecca Loudon’s poetry is a dark spell — heart stoppingly good.
–Ivy Alvarez

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Coleman Hawkins Ornette Coleman

Norma Cole

Norma Cole’s recent books of poetry include Natural Light, Where Shadows Will: Selected Poems 1988-2008, and Spinoza in Her Youth. A new book, WIN THESE POSTERS AND OTHER UNRELATED PRIZES INSIDE, will come out from Omnidawn Press in the fall. A book of essays and talks, TO BE AT MUSIC, just appeared, also from Omnidawn. Her translations include Jean Daive’s A Woman With Several Lives, Fouad Gabriel Naffah’s The Spirit God and the Properties of Nitrogen, and Crosscut Universe: Writers on Writing From France. Cole has been the recipient of awards from the Wallace Alexander Gerbode Foundation, Gertrude Stein Awards, the Fund for Poetry, and the Foundation of Contemporary Arts. In 2008 Cole was a Regents’ Lecturer at UC Berkeley and in 2011 was a columnist at San Francisco Museum of Modern Art’s “Open Space.” She teaches at the University of San Francisco.

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May Apple Deep

Michael Sikkema

Michael Sikkema is proud to be afield and aflame up in the dunes of West Michigan. He believes in a trickster poetics of trance and chance and/or telling it how it is.

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FIG. I

Karen Lepri

Karen Lepri holds an M.F.A. from Brown University. Her poems, translations, & reviews have appeared or are forthcoming in 6x6, Boston Review, Chicago Review, Conjunctions, Denver Quarterly, Lana Turner, Mandorla, and Shearsman, among others. Lepri was the recipient of the American Academy of Poets, Weston, & Frances Mason Harris Prizes in poetry. She has taught writing at Brown University and Bard College and currently lives on Cape Cod.

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Dirt City Lions

Shelly Taylor

Born in rural southern Georgia, Shelly Taylor resides in Tucson.  She is the author of Black-Eyed Heifer (Tarpaulin Sky Press, 2010) and two chapbooks, Peaches the yes-girl (Portable Press at Yo-Yo Labs, 2008) and Land Wide to Get a Hold Lost In (Dancing Girl Press, 2009).  Dirty City Lions is an excerpt from her second full-length manuscript titled Lions, Remonstrance, Fatale, Blue.

 

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S E W N

Nathan Hauke

Nathan Hauke is the author of chapbooks Stray Music (Furniture Press PO25¢EM Series 2011) and In the Living Room (Lame House Press 2010).  His poetry has been published in American Letters & Commentary, BlazeVox, Colorado Review, Denver Quarterly, Electronic Poetry Review, Eleven Eleven, Greatcoat, Horse Less Review, Interim, New American Writing,Parthenon West, Peaches & Bats, Real Poetik, Twenty Six, and We Are So Happy To Know Something among others.  He is co-editor of Ark Press with Kirsten Jorgenson.

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Deseret

Kirsten Jorgenson

Kirsten Jorgenson is the co-editor of Ark Press. Her writing can be found in The AndNow Awards, Blazevox, Horse Less Review, Sidebrow and We Are So Happy to Know Something. Her chapbook, Accidents of Distance, is forthcoming from dancing girl press.

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Citizen Jane (-X) Trains for Many Different Kinds of Careers
Daniela Olszewska

Daniela Olszewska was born in Wrocław, Poland and grew up in the area known as Chicagoland.  She is currently pursuing her MFA at the University of Alabama.  Daniela is the author of five chapbooks, including The Partial Autobiography of Jane Doe (dancing girl press) and The Twelve Wives of Citizen Jane (Spooky Girlfriend Press, 2010).

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A Knee for a Life
Jennifer Denrow

Jennifer Denrow the author of California (Four Way Books) and From California, On (Brave Men Press, 2010). She currently lives in Colorado and is pursuing a Ph.D. at the University of Denver.

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I Could Jump Through the Keyhole in Your Door

Michael Sikkema
Michael Sikkema is the author of Futuring (BlazeVOX Books) and the chapbooks Code Over Code (Lame House Press), “Saying Things as an Engine Would” (H N G  M N), and the collaborative chapbook with Jen Tynes, Autogeography (Black Warrior Review).  He lives and works in west Michigan.

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Out-of-print chapbooks include The Constitution by Brian Foley, ATM by Christopher Salerno, The Werld by Claire Becker, Anemic Cinema by Thomas Cook, To Be Human is To Be a Conversation by Andrea Rexilius, Shadows Are Weather by Allison Carter, Toward Eadward Forward by Emily Abendroth, A Mule-Shaped Cloud by Chris Tonelli & Sarah Bartlett, Vale Tudo by Sommer Browning, The Photograph by Sampson Starkweather, At Last Unfolding Congo by Alex Lemon, The Julias by Boyd Spahr, Surveyic Hero by Jack Boettcher, Fog Quartets by Julie Doxsee, [Summer_insular] by Justin Marks, Lyric by C.S. Carrier, Phoenix Memory by Kate Schapira, Abraham Lincoln’s Death Scene by Zachary Schomburg, Wind is Wind and Rain is Rain by Brynne, Cinephrastics by Kathleen Ossip, Is Holy by Matthew Henriksen, If Fire, Arrival by Julia Cohen, Canoe by Adam Clay, Winter Constellations by Nate Pritts, Egg Breakfast by Tyler Carter, Ode to Pumpsie Green & Stretch Phillips by Adam Tobin, Elect June Grooms by Erika Howsare, and Found in Nature by Jen Tynes.